Commitment to Principles Quotes

… my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country; not to its institutions or it’s office holders..

Some people never have anything except ideals.

We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on issues of principle.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.

Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.

Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred years from now. I think you will find but few images of God, unless you want to profane the Almighty.

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

There's no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn't back down.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

You have only two things of value here in congress, your word and your vote. Don't give either of them lightly.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more.

I suggest the greatest challenge to Christians in the business world is within - making the heart determination (simply put, the choice) to live by God's principles and sticking with it; making the commitment to serving Christ and mankind with our efforts, our gifts and our knowledge.

My thing is, the older you get you gotta stand up for what you believe in, and keep bashin' away.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.